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Quotes About Season

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving
It was Seaver himself who called the Mets' triumph "the greatest collective victory by any team in sports," an observation as brilliantly on target as any knee-high curveball on the outside corner that he threw all season.
~ Wayne Coffey
the gentle melancholia that afflicts country people when the warm weather is ending.
~ Daniel Silva
As in the cold season their wings bear the starlings along in a broad, dense flock, so does that blast the wicked spirits. Hither, thither, downward, upward, it drives them.
~ Dante Alighieri
We can still fall into the trap of self-deceit today. It always begins through pride and arrogance, somehow thinking that our ways are superior to God's ways. In this season when the church celebrates Jesus' mighty work of redemption, let's not miss the joy of complete obedience to God's will and plans for our life.
~ Darlene Zschech
The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.
~ Dave Barry
Aged drakes sometimes will not be fertile until much later in the breeding season, when natural day length and temperatures have increased. Some drakes will remain fertile until they are ten years of age or older, but typically their best breeding age is six months to three years.
~ Dave Holderread
Who taught us to bow our heads while waiting for trains? to touch lumber without regret and sing privately or not at all? To invest the season with forgiveness and coax from it a hopeful omen? Lord knows the hope would heal this little fear. But who taught us to fear?
~ James Harms
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.
~ James Madison
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
~ James R. Lowell
There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.
~ James Reston
And what is so rare as a day in June?Then, if ever, come perfect days.
~ James Russell Lowell
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,Sullen and sad.
~ James Thomson
winter grayness weighing like stone.
~ Donna Tartt
I can't believe you two," Henry said crossly. "I reminded you of this last night." "But we forgot," said the twins, in simultaneous despair. "How could you?" "Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner." "Asparagus is in season," said Francis helpfully.
~ Donna Tartt
Terror," said Lymond, "is our daily bread in the Wuthenheer. We eat it, we live by it and we disseminate it; and not only between Christmas and Epiphany: there is no close season for fright.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Nouvelle amour, nouvelle affection; nouvelles fleurs parmi l'herbe nouvelle. Tell Richard his bride has yet to meet her brother-in-law, her Sea-Catte, her Sea-Scorpion, beautiful in the breeding season.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
~ Dorothy Parker
And when we return next season, what personal gift may I bring you from the city of London?' 'Nothing – nothing at all. I want nothing. A watch of gold is a pleasant thing to have.
~ Agatha Christie Mallowan
This is the fruit for a time of year when the sun and all its gallop don't merely feel as though they have nudged us from a static winter, but into a fully alive, roaring season—when everything you touch feels like it could give you a blister and a bit of wild burn.
~ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Without returning... O my feelings In this gathering darkness of spring, And against my koto My tangled, tangled hair.
~ Akiko Yosano
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem — once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
~ Al Gallagher
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
~ Alain Prost